Thursday June 22, 2006

Nokia, Siemens to merge phone equipment units

news.yahoo.com :

Finnish mobile giant Nokia and Germany's Siemens AG agreed to combine their phone equipment units, the companies said in a joint statement. The venture would bring annual cost savings of 1.5 billion euros ($1.90 billion) by 2010.

Nokia Siemens Networks, which combines Nokia's Networks unit and Siemens' carrier-related operations, had 2005 pro forma revenues of 15.8 billion euros and 60,000 employees. The new entity will be headquartered in Nokia's home country of Finland, but owned on a 50-50 basis by both corporate parents.

A tie-up of rivals Alcatel and Lucent agreed in April spurred talk of more possible mergers and partnerships between infrastructure gear makers, who have come under increasing pressure from Asian rivals like Huawei.

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